Comments on: Irish Season Hinges on Beating USC

By: NDBonecrusher

NDBonecrusher — Sun, 20 Oct 2013 13:34:09 +0000

4 things in retrospect:
1-If Tommy Rees stays in and is even mediocre, we DEMOLISH those guys in the 2nd half by double digits.
2-Coaches have to do a better job getting the #2 (or 3?) ready. Andrew Hendrix looked awful, and you can’t put it all on the player.
3-Hiya, Defense! Nice to see you again! I mean, REALLY REALLY REALLY nice to see you again!
4-Too many points left on the field. Even with Rees injury it should not have been that close.

OK lads-take care of business, get healthy, and win win win win!

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 18:49:15 +0000

Irish win 30-23. Season hinges on this game.

By: Dave88

Dave88 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 17:27:26 +0000

ND can’t come out out the gate slow making mental mistakes and shooting themselves in the foot. Thus far, they haven’t distinguished themselves as other than a slightly better than mediocre football team. And we can’t exactly label Brian Kelly big game Brian as he still has much to prove in my opinion.

Keys to the game are the empty set and “crazy train”. If we had a jumbotron ND would win hands down. Just kidding.

By: topgome

topgome — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 15:10:41 +0000

I have a suggestion. If they want to generate crowd noise on third downs, why don’t they just pipe in crowd noise instead of that lousy “music?”

By: NDBonecrusher

NDBonecrusher — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:55:09 +0000

John you are batting 1000 for this year, so telling you how to predict a game is like telling Francis how to bless a host. Some observations:
ND can ill afford to start today like they did against OU. This game requires the lads to be cool like Fonzie and NOT play from behind. Like McGee says, don’t abandon the run! No theoretical physics here-use the run to set up the pass then chuck it deep (well–as deep as we can). But it all starts with out-muscling the Condoms up front and imposing our will on both sides. Don’t we keep hearing again and again about “toughness”? Well let’s have some, boys!
Look for a nice game from Amir, who will be seeking some “turnabout is fair play” points. This is his first time playing against his former team and I’m sure he will try to make the most of every touch. You agree?
I think ND wins by 10.
John, Godspeed with upcoming surgery. You’re a damn good writer and I enjoy your stuff, even when you prove me wrong! Best Wishes for speedy recovery!

By: BeveragePavilion_69

BeveragePavilion_69 — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:53:18 +0000

Stop complaining about Kelly. Irish 49-17

By: austinirish

austinirish — Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:52:27 +0000

In reply to JimP. They both have ND connections also, but I suspect no one would suspect the fix is in in our case.

By: Jerrod

Jerrod — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 20:08:10 +0000

In reply to Tom Morrison. We arent about one fluke season at ND. Kelly has been outcoached by Brady Hoke three straight years and Lane Kiffin in 2011. Lou would never get coached by coaches of that caliber. USC was an unranked 4 loss team last year, not really a "big game".

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 16:19:37 +0000

The former USC coach has no “e” in his last name. It’s “Kiffin”.

By: JimP

JimP — Fri, 18 Oct 2013 13:27:17 +0000

In reply to 2013. BTW, with Rice and Willingham on the selection committee, two people that have Stanford connections, I think the fix is in!